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My daughter has just turned 13 years old, and we gave her our old iPhone for her birthday. Now I want to add her to our iCloud Famly so I can share the apps and music I’ve bought on the iTunes Store with her, but when I go to the Manage Family option in the iCloud chapter of the System Preferences on my Mac and select Add Family Member and try to create her own iCloud.com AppleID account, the date keeps flipping back to “Day” and “Month” when I select her year of birth.

What is wrong and how can I fix this ?

Answer :

What you are doing would be correct for adding any child up to 12 years old into your iCloud Family, but the day your child turns 13 years old, Apple blocks this option.

I assume the reason being that any person of 13 years or older is allowed by Apple to create his/her own AppleID-account.

So your daughter has to create her own AppleID-account on her iPhone.

To get a FREE new iCloud.com-eMail address and a coupled AppleID-account, you need to use an iPhone or iPad. (in your case, that would be on her own iPhone, but it could be done on any iPhone or iPad where the user temporarily logs off from iCloud).

on the iPhone/iPad, go to Settings (the app with the gear/sprocket icon)